Changes for R7 vs Gold Coast Guns

[The Runner]

We will see long term

But of the three below him, Bailey is going to be the star of the show. A jet already, who’s hard, fast, takes the game on, and you’d give an arm and a leg for.

Richards looks good, Bailey is good.

You're confusing the Bailey's

[waswan]

Ronke "a little sore" = 7 to 8 weeks..... surely out injury management need a good review

As a club, we should be saying if the player isnt available to play by September than its season over.... get ready for next year, cant see the point of bringing Joey back for a month of Footy after September

[Markwebbos]

Ronke "a little sore" = 7 to 8 weeks..... surely out injury management need a good review

As a club, we should be saying if the player isnt available to play by September than its season over.... get ready for next year, cant see the point of bringing Joey back for a month of Footy after September

He’s got a stress reaction not “a little sore”, I believe.

[The Big Cat]

Is Fox our new Dean Towers?

Except for Mills who got the perfect 10, Fox was the only Swans player to get votes in the coaches award.

BTW For those who criticise Mills, Jonathan Brown last night on OTC called Mills the league’s elite defender with a superior IQ.

[caj23]

Except for Mills who got the perfect 10, Fox was the only Swans player to get votes in the coaches award.

BTW For those who criticise Mills, Jonathan Brown last night on OTC called Mills the league’s elite defender with a superior IQ.

The criticism isn’t of Mills personally, it’s the fact that he isn’t fully utilised for the benefit of the team

[MattW]

Except for Mills who got the perfect 10, Fox was the only Swans player to get votes in the coaches award.

BTW For those who criticise Mills, Jonathan Brown last night on OTC called Mills the league’s elite defender with a superior IQ.

He certainly performed on Longmire's vision of him as a defender on Sunday. Super mature performance.

[MattW]

Here's the Draft Central write-up on Matt Ling: Matthew Ling - Aussie Rules Draft Central

I think it's worth reading to remind ourselves why he was taken at pick 14. He's the only player in the top 34 picks in the 2017 draft to have not yet played an AFL game. So his time is due.

Picks 15-17 went for Zac Bailey, Ed Richards (my personal choice) and Jack Higgins. All are doing quite well. It was reported that Longmire visited Higgins at home the night before the draft. The point of this is not to illustrate that we made a mistake, but rather that we were well aware of some very good players with similar characteristics, but chose Ling ahead of them all. Certainly KB had an in depth knowledge of all these players. We know that he's a very sharp assessor of talent.

We don't know for sure, but he should be able to get back on track for an AFL career if he can overcome his injuries. Except for his turf toe injury in 2018, the others have not been reported on much, but it seems to have limited his training and playing time. The talent is there, and if he's fit to play, he's capable of being a very exciting player.

Thanks for this. To be fair to him he's appeared to have been injured most of the time. I'd be surprised if he'd played more than three games in a row during his time with us, at least until this year. Happily, he is now and it seems a key objective to just get games into him.

Like you, it makes sense to me that they would train him as a lockdown defender, noting the dearth of players we have in that role, as discussed recently. The main impression I had of the few NEAFL games I've seen is that he went in hard to the tackle and to win a ball in dispute.

[jono2707]

He certainly performed on Longmire's vision of him as a defender on Sunday. Super mature performance.

I always thought he was put back in defence to help develop his game and ready him for the middle. If so he's certainly passed the test and ready to graduate up to the midfield.

Of course, at the moment midfield for us is about 20m out from our goal line, and any forwards we can scratch together get to range out a bit more to about the 50m arc....

[Auntie.Gerald]

Does Stoddart stay this week against a young fast Gold Coast ?

or is that problem to solve only part of what our coaches see for our squad trajectory improvement ?

[waswan]

He’s got a stress reaction not “a little sore”, I believe.

Im not doubting the injury its the initial comment that im getting sick of, K Brand was 1 to 2 weeks a month ago as well

[KTigers]

Club site says Reid, Sinclair & McCartin all possibilities for Saturday.

[neilfws]

This is incorrect. The NM game last year was younger at an average of 23 years and 208 days, the Tigers game had an average of 24 years 45 days

RIC - https://afltables.com/afl/stats/game...620200712.html
NM - https://afltables.com/afl/stats/game...620190518.html

Nice fact checking!

This chart took longer to make than I'd hoped - and may not be 100% accurate - but I believe there were 9 games last season with an average age less than the Tigers game this year, with 7 of those less than 24 years average.

Take away last season and the team is indeed the lowest average age since around 1997, so perhaps whoever supplied the data missed 2019 by mistake.

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[Markwebbos]

Im not doubting the injury its the initial comment that im getting sick of, K Brand was 1 to 2 weeks a month ago as well

Fair point, although I think the club said Ronke was sore and would get scanned the next day and then announced it as a stress reaction. Brand I agree seems to be another elastic injury.

[MattW]

Nice fact checking!

This chart took longer to make than I'd hoped - and may not be 100% accurate - but I believe there were 9 games last season with an average age less than the Tigers game this year, with 7 of those less than 24 years average.

Take away last season and the team is indeed the lowest average age since around 1997, so perhaps whoever supplied the data missed 2019 by mistake.

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Perhaps John got his talking points mixed up.

[ugg]

The Swans tweeted it earlier before the press conference, so I suspect Horse was fed the wrong info.